Review: With Premieres, an Orchestra Keeps Facing Forward Posted by By Seth Colter Walls November 10, 2023Posted inAmerican Composers Orchestra, Carnegie Hall, Classical Music, Music The American Composers Orchestra, which occupies an essential place in the New York scene, presented an evening of several new works at Zankel Hall.
Her Symphony Reclaims an Ancestral Story, and Classical Music Posted by By Tim Greiving July 4, 2023Posted inAmerican Composers Orchestra, Classical Music, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, Music, Roumain, Daniel Bernard, Sea Island Symphony (Musical Work), Tamar-kali Tamar-kali, a former punk rocker, wove episodes of Gullah Geechee history into “Sea Island Symphony,” premiering at Lincoln Center in Manhattan.
New Effort Aims to Bring More Contemporary Music to Orchestras Posted by By Javier C. Hernandez May 26, 2022Posted inAmerican Composers Orchestra, Angel Lam, Arlene Sierra, Classical Music, Clyne, Anna, Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Gity Razaz, Kansas City Symphony, League of American Orchestras, Music, New York Philharmonic, Philadelphia Orchestra, Philanthropy, San Diego Symphony, Sarasota Orchestra, Toulmin, Virginia B, Foundation, Wang Lu, Women and Girls An initiative by the League of American Orchestras will enlist 30 ensembles to perform works by six living composers, all of them women.